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Updated: June 14, 2025
We built a fort near a big spring, an' called it an' the crick near by aftah ole Matt Houston. Thar wuzn't anothah house in this region, 'cep' at Bryant Station; and look at us now! Lexin'ton, nearly two thousand population the biggest town in the State an' Bourbonton a-treadin' right 'long on her heels ovah four hundurd people now, an' a-growin' lak a ironweed.
"Where is he?" asked Sally in another whisper. "He's to the tavern there in Lexin'ton. There a'n't nobody along with him, cause his father's gone to Bostin to see 'bout not gettin' scomfishkated, or arter a protection, or sumthin." "And his mother is dead," said Sally, slowly. "Long! I must go to Lexington to-night, on the pillion, and you must go with me.
"Everybody begun to laugh, and a man right in front o' me says, 'It's that young feller from Lexin'ton. His father's one o' the biggest horsemen in the state. That's his horse that's jest won the race. And I turned around to see, and there was a boy about the size o' my youngest grandchild up at Danville.
"Heah, you kin look ovah last week's paper tell the men folks gits in. We air mighty proud o' that paper. It's the fust evah printed in Kaintuck. Mason an' Henry sets up tell nigh onto nine o'clock readin' it, the fust night aftah it comes. It's printed at Lexin'ton by John Bradford.
He usetah live out heah, but, ten or twelve year ago, he moved intah Lexin'ton an' started up the 'Gazette, an' I reckon it's 'bout the fines' paper whut evah wuz; leastways, it makes mighty fine trimmin's fur the cup'od shelves." When his garrulous hostess had departed, Dudley, instead of reading the paper, looked about him.
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